Panasonic TH-42PD50U 42 in. Plasma EDTV - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

I'd check your Panasonic user's manual, usually, there is a list of codes for "other" devices. There may also be a way to do an automatic upload of the Toshiba device's code if it is on and the right button on the Panasonic remote is pushed.

Normally the event that you saw is the power supply. Sometimes it can be a failure on one of the boards that caused the power supply to go in to protect, or be damaged. You must consider that after about 40,000 to 50,000 hours most electronic devices reach their expected life. There is something called MTBF (mean time between failure). This spec for consumer products is evaluated at normal room temperature of about 72F. A warmer operating environment will reduce the expected MTBF. As you stated your set is about 2.5 years old. This is before the average MTBF period. Your set must have maybe 25,000 hours at most. I would expect to have a few years more with it. From my experience when a TV, or appliance, or moist any electronic device has about 5 years of age it should be at its end of life period. At this age of a device investing money to service it has risk something else can fail.

Sound board is gone, not worth fixing

Check to make sure your sleep timer is not activated.

Change the panel.

To make it a hard reset, just unplug the TV from AC mains wall socket, and re-plug it back after 15 minutes or so. This procedure will make it a hard reset. If you want to make it a system reset [Factory Reset]; you have to enter its service mode option, and select the factory reset option. If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Pull up older posts. Surf the site with patience. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Service mode entry, adjust and exit procedure to many popular brand TVs are given. Never forget to exit the service mode, after all adjustments have been done.

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This is usally a cause of capacitors that have lost their electrolytics. You can either replace them by desoldering them out yourself or replace the power supply board known as the smps. It stands for switch mode power supply. More than likely, you can find one rather cheap on ebay. This board has deadly voltages that can kill you. Make sure the set is unplugged for at least a few hours to allow the capacitors to fully discharge. If you are going to try to replace the caps, look for bulges in them. When a set does what yours is doing it's usally easy to find the defective filtering capacitors. Regards, Joe Van Buren

If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Pull up older posts. Surf the site with patience. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Line, faults & possible causes to Plasma & LCD screen are given with illustrations.

If you wish to get more; check the site linked here. It has set-up code list & set-up procedure to many popular brand remote controls. See it in "Mosaic" view. It will make surf easier. http://electrohelponline.blogspot.com/

It could either be memory chips, or edge connections to the screen. Fix for edge connection is foam. Press your finger around the edges of the screen, see if problem goes away. Don't use too much force, and don't worry about finger prints.

it could have over heated you can try to reset it first unplug it for about five minutes and try to turn it on if that dont work the remote might have a set button try holding that down until the red light flashes twice, then turn it on if not then hold the power button down on the set for a good five seconds to see if that resets it. if none of that works you will have to go to panasonic .com for the reset instructions.with the red light blinking the power supply is most likely good you just need to reset i.

7 blinks? Driver SOS 2 SU / SD / SS Boards (SC floating voltage area). Check it. If you wish to get some details, http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Pull up older posts. Check this link too.

I would guess a power board failure. The blinking light is an error code.

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Are you using a component video connection (3 wires for the video, colored red, green, and blue)? It sounds as though you are, but correct me if you are using a different connection as the steps will be different. If so, ensure that they are all connected. You can also unplug one at a time while watching the picture. If the colors DON'T change when unplugging any individual wire, then check that wire from end to end looking for cuts/corrosion/etc... If necessary, replace the cable. Also make sure that they're plugged in to the right jacks, they should be color coded. NOTE: there is a red jack for the video AND for the audio. Check carefully that these aren't mixed up.

it depends of your connection available on both computer and plasma tv..

you need to go to menu and go to video and start all if it doesn't work

Try these charts...

No. They are different.